Critical Spillover

Some very belated notes on a piece I wrote for Harper's in February

Apr 2 • Olivia Giovetti

Borys Lyatoshynsky’s The Golden Crown in Lviv, selective solidarity everywhere else

Nov 8, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

The Unsullied Face of Truth

A few scattered thoughts as I reconsider La clemenza di Tito

Sep 2, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

Zweigvanshchina

Stefan Zweig, Modest Mussorgsky, and the microcosms that mirrored the macrocosms in the Salzburg Easter Festival's Khovanshchina.

May 8, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

Casting Out Nines

Mythbusting the Curse of the Ninth, and mythmaking with the Mahlers

Apr 26, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

What You Like Will Rule a Sentence

Lessons from Ukrainian class and the Lviv National Opera.

Feb 27, 2025 • Olivia Giovetti

End of the Line

The multifarious finales to Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina

Aug 27, 2024 • Olivia Giovetti

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